Free traders are the biggest enablers of Big Government that there are. It’s the free trade policies that are making a hundred million Americans dependent on government.
One of the reasons that free traders butt heads with protectionists: assuming that what the protectionists claim is true, the protectionist solution to make government bigger is ridiculous.
This country's economy is a lopsided non-productive joke. A lot of the work done here has nothing to do with anything useful and I don't mean just gov't jobs.If we had ditched free trade in the early 1990s we would be doing great. Now we have millions supported by the Federal gov't because we allowed good middle class jobs to migrate over to Asia. Some Americans got very rich on this. Those are the only rich people I don't like. Those rich free traitors. Many of them live in DC where trade lawyers got rich.
Now we will have computerization, automation, robotics decimating many of the remaining decent paying jobs that free trade did not get to kill. Add open borders, making for even more of a labor surplus.....